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>>Philpa+(OP)
Do other people react as strongly as I did to the lack of capitalisation at the start of sentences? The post is generally "well" written with good grammar and punctuation so I find it strange - it feels like a style choice. But the style choice just instinctively makes part of my brain feel like it's written by a child.

>>rkange+m5
Wow a lot of people have very strong feelings about this. Parent comment is fine but some of the replies are quite out there, calling this "arrogant" and "dumb". Let me provide my own opinion.

IMO content over style. Nobody owes you adherence to a particular set of rules, nor do they owe you their thoughts at all. If the writer's style is a bridge too far for you, kindly just close the tab, don't complain about it. Certainly don't use hateful words to describe them.

Remember, the same English teachers who taught you to capitalize also taught you that there is no singular "they" and that you should use "he/she" instead.

>>aftbit+2E
> If the writer's style is a bridge too far for you, kindly just close the tab, don't complain about it.

I sure hope we are allowed to criticize writers’ styles.

>>layer8+AO
I mean ... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

>>nickit+9O1
No capitalization is not a tangential annoyance, it is a major complain akin to complaining about a text written in one block (without anything distinguishing sentences and paragraphs from each other).

>>machom+QM2
i strongly disagree and i think you do too.

whichofthesesentencesdidyoufindeasiertoreadhowcouldyoueventhinkthatinthefirstplace

>>aftbit+hh4
i said sentences and paragraphs not words not having punctuation is absolutely akin to not capitalizing after all new lines and dots are designed and are working together and in unison to when combined convey the important information information of separation of pieces of information ways of compartmentalization if anything capitalized words are more visible than dots